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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Peru	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	20,963	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	21,291	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	21,631	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	21,980	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	22,339	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	22,707	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	23,055	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	23,380	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	23,708	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	23,944	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	24,087	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	24,228	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	24,364	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	24,491	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	24,607	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	24,714	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	24,812	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	24,904	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	24,999	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	25,403	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	25,966	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	26,308	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	26,508	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	26,771	108,171

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.